Singapore has topped the charts for the fastest fixed broadband speeds globally for the 12th time in a row, according to a speed test index published last month. Singapore beat 132 countries and regions in Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index for July to emerge No 1 for fixed broadband spee...

PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is back in Malaysia on Sunday (Aug 12) after spending one month in Singapore. The Home Minister was recovering in the island republic after undergoing operation to extract a pancreatic tumour, which was detected at an early stage. A picture of M...

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): While Singaporeans were busy celebrating the nation's birthday on Thursday (Aug 9), a Malaysian tried to smuggle thousands of sachets of chewing tobacco over the Causeway. In a Facebook post on Friday afternoon, Singapore's Immigration ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Oil palm company PLS Plantations Bhd is planning to expand into the durian business. The company, in a filing with Bursa Malaysia today, said it had entered into a binding term sheet with Dulai Fruits Enterprise Sdn Bhd to exclusively explore and and negotiate the acquis...

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): A durian orchard owner in Tak has put his giant 18-kilogram durian on auction. Thanapon Chainok, 51, who has a 12-rai (2-hectare) durian orchard in Tak's Prop Phra district, said the giant remains on its branch, as it is not yet ready for harves...

PETALING JAYA: The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail will likely not be profitable but may serve to turn the two cities into regional hubs that serve as a growth catalyst, says a Straits Times opinion piece written by a visiting academic at Nanyang Technological University. Dr To...

PETALING JAYA: With the completion of his operation and treatment, Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin can leave the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. In a statement by the Home Ministry which was shared on Muhyiddin’s official Facebook page, his press secretary Hafiz Abdul Ha...